Friday, December 13th

1:00pm
Vashon Senior Center
By Donation

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Clint Eastwood’s film Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is based on John Berendt’s popular Southern Gothic true-crime novel. Jim Williams, the main character, is a wealthy middle-aged antiques dealer, a gay man in the closet sleeping with a 20-year-old street hustler. Williams reputation as another local eccentric aestheticized his lifestyle that is accepted (with raised eyebrows); on the other hand, his sexuality depends on its invisibility. The film highlights the nostalgia of an era when homosexuality was taboo and portrays how the traditional aristocratic South clashes with homosexuality.